Why Teaching Matters

Education is a career in which you can find the satisfaction of helping others learn and seeing them grow in skill and independence. You may be challenged by work requiring organization of complex materials, constant communication with other caring adults, becoming a leader in your field, and contributing to the future of the world by educating tomorrow’s leaders.

“A lot of students I work with haven’t found an advocate and I can be that for them.”
– Victoria Luhrs, BS ’05 Secondary Education and 2005 Truman Scholar

“Teaching is important because we are shaping the future of the world. We come in contact with students, even more than some parents, who will be the leaders of the next generation.”
– Noel Adamson, BS ’06 Elementary Education

“There is a magic that occurs when working with young people; when you realize that they get it, you get a real sense of worth.”
– Sylvia White Robinson, BS ’71 and 2005 College of Education Alumni Fellow

“Few professions so obviously impact the breadth and depth of life’s opportunities for America’s children as directly and dramatically as education.”
– Dean Michael Holen